You're probably aware that Patrick Lauber was the original creator of django CMS, and has led its development for many years. He has poured thousands of hours of his time and vast quantities of effort into the project, and it owes a huge deal to him.

django CMS's open source developer community has been one of its strengths for many years. The project, and the community, have also benefitted hugely from the backing, resources and stability provided by Divio.

We've formalised the existing relationships by making them clear in the project's documentation.

We've also instituted some changes to help sustain the project and the community into the future.

Today Christian Bertschy, the CEO and founder of Divio, added me to the list of core developers for django SHOP. Thanks to him, Chris Glass and all the other contributors of django SHOP!

Unfortunately, django SHOP in the past year did not gain much attention from the core developers and some of them might probably have shifted to another e-commerce framework. Myself, I was quite sad that open issues and pull requests were not answered. I now hope, to find enough time to revive this great project.

A new Google+ group "djangoCMS Virtual User Group" has been created by one of our core developers with the purpose of organizing monthly "Show and Tell" sessions via Google Hangouts where people can share some of the implementation details of their projects or show off new CMSPlugins or other CMS-related tools...